I don't think anyone is ever 100% about what the absolutely perfect strategy for this sort of thing is, but your approach looks sound.

You definitely want internal links from content to your pillar page, to help it rank. But the original researcher behind HubSpot's take on the approach did find that more internal and external links within their pillar pages also correlated with higher rankings.

I don't think anyone is ever 100% about what the absolutely perfect strategy for this sort of thing is, but your approach looks sound.

You definitely want internal links from content to your pillar page, to help it rank. But the original researcher behind HubSpot's take on the approach did find that more internal and external links within their pillar pages also correlated with higher rankings.